Sys SVP Financial Planning and Analysis

CommonSpirit Health; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 400,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health in Chicago seeks a Systems SVP, Financial Planning & Analysis to lead enterprise-wide FP&A, capital deployment, and performance management for centralized and regional functions. You will partner with the CFO, COO, and CSO to guide financial decisions and drive short- and long-term strategic plans.

This executive role oversees budgeting, forecasting, analytics, and governance across corporate and regional teams, ensuring efficient resource allocation and value realization in

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field required.
• MBA or relevant advanced degree with 10+ years healthcare finance experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Executive Leadership: partner with CFO/CEO/COO/CSO to guide financial strategy and governance.
• Strategic Financial Planning: lead long-range planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling.
• Capital Deployment and Governance: oversee capital prioritization, allocation, and value realization across the enterprise.
• Financial Analysis and Performance Monitoring: develop analytics, scenarios, variance analyses, and KPI tracking.
• Business Partnering: collaborate with regional CFOs and business leaders on budgeting and performance management.
• Risk Management: identify and mitigate financial risks and ensure policy/regulatory compliance.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration

MBA or relevant advanced degree

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

The System Senior Vice President (SVP), Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) oversees several areas of finance for CommonSpirit Health (CSH). The SVP leads a team responsible for all Financial Planning and activities for CSH. In addition, the SVP will lead teams overseeing all finance-related activities supporting Central and Corporate office functions, Operational Performance, Decision Support, and Value Capture. This leader plays a vital role in guiding the organization's financial decisions, supporting strategic initiatives and decision-making, and ensuring effective resource allocation to drive alignment and achieve CSH's short- and long-term operational and financial strategies and objectives. The SVP will serve as a thought partner to the CFO, COO, and CSO and work closely with other senior leaders across the organization to provide leadership and financial advice informing major strategic financial decisions and ensure organizational effectiveness and success. As the head of FP&A, this position provides the vision, strategic direction, and oversight for short- and long-range financial planning activities, capital allocations and approvals, growth initiatives, and strategic planning, including key initiative development and synergy realization, acquisitions and divestitures, and financial performance analysis, analytics, and management reporting. In addition, this leader is responsible for leading all finance activities related to the Corporate Office and Central Functions, including financial planning, capital allocation, performance and cost management, and analysis to support operational efficiency and growth.

• Executive Leadership: Act as a strategic partner to the CFO and executive leadership team, providing financial insights and recommendations to drive business decisions. Collaborate with the CFO, COO, CSO, and other leaders to drive the system-wide strategic financial planning process, providing executive leaders and governance groups with views on financial implications and perspectives on business strategy, operations, and growth. Communicate financial strategies and results to C-suite, senior management, the Board of Directors, and other stakeholders.
• Strategic Financial Planning: Develop, optimize, and lead the execution of the company's financial planning processes for capital expenses, operating expenses, and cash, including long-range planning, annual budgeting, and monthly and quarterly forecasting activities. Develop financial models and business case tools to support new business initiatives and investment decisions. Develop new integrated planning frameworks that provide better insights into prioritization, optimization, and utilization of assets and resources across the enterprise. Lead strategic financial planning discussions with the CFO, COO, CSO, and other senior executives and governance bodies on prioritizing and balancing operational performance, cash requirements, and capital spending levels. Provide financial insights and recommendations to support CSH's strategic short- and long-term plans and initiatives, ensuring alignment with expected funding levels, days cash on hand, debt-to-cap, and other key metrics. In collaboration with SVP Operational Finance, develop short- and long-range financial targets for CSH Consolidated and Regions.
• Capital Deployment and Governance: Engage with COO, CFO, and CSO on matters related to system-wide capital capacity and recommend optimal allocations and investments. Further develop standards and processes for capital planning, prioritization, allocation, and deployment across the enterprise, including end-to-end business case creation, prioritization frameworks, and value-realization tracking. Create and maintain necessary updates to the CommonSpirit Capital Policy and Procedures.
• Financial Analysis and Performance Monitoring: In collaboration with other finance functions, develop and optimize frameworks and systems for financial analysis, management reporting, and performance monitoring, including preparation of detailed financial analyses, scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, variance analysis, expected return on projects and capital, and other ad hoc analysis. Utilize advanced financial systems and tools to improve data accuracy and reporting capabilities. Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and benchmarks to monitor financial performance when appropriate. Provide insights to executive leadership and governance groups related to quality of earnings, financial forecasts, capital, projected cash balances, key business metrics, and potential risks to achieve goals.
• Business Partnering: Collaborate with business unit leaders, including Regional CFOs and other finance leaders, to understand their financial needs and provide support for budgeting, forecasting, and performance management. Support M&A activities by providing financial analysis and due diligence on the overall impact of potential acquisitions, partnerships, and divestitures, and by integrating acquired entities into the company's financial planning processes and systems.
• Risk Management: Monitor and manage financial risks, including operational, market, regional, and strategic risks. Develop integrated scenario planning and work with Regional CFOs, Operational Finance, Treasury, and other leaders to develop views and provide perspective into long‑term external market dynamics, industry trends, potential changes and implications to each region, the impact that different factors could have on overall organizational performance, and proposed actions the organization could take. Develop risk mitigation strategies and ensure compliance with financial policies and regulatory requirements.

Job Requirements

Required

• Bachelors Other Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field; MBA or relevant advanced degree and 10+ years minimum of 10 years of healthcare Finance experience, upon hire or
• None, upon hire

Preferred

• Master's or Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field; MBA or relevant advanced degree and 10+ years minimum of 10 years healthcare Finance experience, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites and 137 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings. CommonSpirit has more than 157,000 employees, 45,000 nurses and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice providers across 24 states and contributes more than $4.2 billion annually in charity care, community benefits and unreimbursed government programs. Together with our patients, physicians, partners, and communities, we are creating a more just, equitable, and innovative healthcare delivery system.